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Outdoor Recreation References

This page is designed to aid in additional research that you might feel like conducting on these topics.  It is not designed to be all inclusive or to say that we support these pages or the information in them.  You will find book references as well as web page ones.  Enjoy!

Catagories:

Scuba:

• If a technical discourse on compressed air is what you are after then this page is for you.
• For information about Nitrogen Narcosis this site is a good place to start.
• SCUBA diving by Norman Barrett. Franklin Watts:New York, 1988. Very young format, with large print, but high level vocabulary (apparatus, cylinder, enables, recreation). Primarily a picture book.
• Down Under: Diving adventures on the Great Barrier Reef by Ann McGovern. Macmillan Publishing Co:NY , 1989.The author takes the perspective of a 12 year old girl who writes of diving on the Great Barrier Reef with a research/adventure expedition. It is a very interesting book and shows diving from the perspective of an adolescent. The author has won an award (Notable Children’s Science Book) for a similar book, Night Dive.
• SCUBA diving by Dennis Graver. Human Kinetics Publishers: Champaign, IL, 1993.   It is quite thorough. It discusses care of equipment, as well as presenting a discussion of gasses.  It is easily read, but definitely on an adult level.

Sailing:

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